[odc-discuss] Basic Produced Work question

Mon Mar 2 00:28:37 UTC 2009

Hi odc-discuss,

    first post, I'm one of the OpenStreetMap guys but 
OpenStreetMap-legal is quite busy at the moment and the question I have 
is a very basic one.

I have always assumed that the idea behind the ODbL "Produced Work" was: 
If you take an ODbL-licensed database, add some data to it, and then 
make a "Produced Work" and publish that, then the share-alike clause 
applies to the derived database that you have created in the process 
(even if it was just a by-product that you did not originally want to 
publish).

Is that a correct interpretation?

If so, I am currently struggling to find the right "thread" through the 
license that describes the above.

So I publish the "Produced Work". 4.4 "share alike" does not apply (4.5b 
expressly says that 4.4 does not apply for Produced Works).

4.6 says that I have to make the derivative database available if I 
publicly "convey" it. The previous draft said "use" here; now the 
definition of "convey" explicitly excludes Produced Works.

So - is the whole thing about having to share an "interim" derived 
database that you create on your way to a Produced Work just a pipe 
dream, a misunderstanding on my part? Or is ist still codified in the 
license, and if yes, where?

Bye
Frederik

-- 
Frederik Ramm  ##  eMail frederik at remote.org  ##  N49°00'09" E008°23'33"